Bhattacharya's distinctive voice, which incorporates both Guyanese and Indian dialects, results in an authentic and sybaritic tale." - Publishers Weekly (starred) "Words as musical notes, a book as symphony. This book, and this writer, are here to last." - India Today "In vigorous yet lyrical prose employing a pungent vernacular, Bhattacharya describes Guyana's horrid heat and thunderous rain in sensuous detail. Naipaul." -Dinaw Mengestu, The New York Times Book Review "Bhattacharya's understanding of displacement and drifting comes from a completely original place, and he has all of the humour and the sharpness of the young Naipaul, with none of the spleen. It's impossible, reading Bhattacharya, not to be reminded of V.S. "'s heart lies in the exuberant and often arresting observations of a man plunging himself a world full of beauty, violence and cultural strife.
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